A blog by Luke Akehurst about politics, elections, and the Labour Party - With subtitles for the Hard of Left.
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Monday, September 22, 2008

No ID

I couldn't help feeling sorry for the speaker from the No2ID campaign who couldn't get into the conference to address a fringe meeting this lunchtime because they er... didn't have any ID.

I don't have any real problem with ID cards in principle but I think they will need to be Europe-wide and I think they will have negligible effect on terrorism, and that seems to be a central part of the Governments case for them

ID cards: These ID cards are more than that, it is what is behind it all!! This could be used by a future Tory government against us all

Such a system would surely be a target for terrorism-We all know that electronic data can be corrupted and eventually it would get hacked. There would be thousands of people with access to it, all it takes is one of these people to get bitter and twisted, then could wipe millions of people from the system at a stroke-these unfortunate people would be deleted from society as if never existed.A lot of this work is obviously going to be contracted out to India and the sub continent at a much greater risk of the date base being held for ransom!!The Information could be misused by governments as done by the Tories in the 80's with the economic league which blacklisted any one who criticised the Government & system or belonged to organisations that did, so its been done and I don't trust that it will not be misused.

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Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. Member of Labour’s NEC 2010-2012. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6. Parliamentary candidate for Aldershot (2001) and Castle Point (2005). Hackney Councillor (Chatham Ward) 2002-2014, Labour Group Chief Whip 2002-09, Chair of Health Scrutiny 2010-2014. Supporter of Europe, NATO/nuclear deterrence, Israel, electoral reform. Guardian reader. Dad. Oxford resident. Unite union member. Employment history as a Labour Party Organiser, Local Government Political Assistant, Director at a Public Affairs company. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.